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Learning Difference - Race and Schooling in the Multiracial Metropolis (Paperback)
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Learning Difference - Race and Schooling in the Multiracial Metropolis (Paperback)
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"A savvy ethnographer, Staiger reveals the social contours of an
urban high school with no racial majority. Here black, white,
Latino, and Asian adolescents aggressively use race and gender as
tools to define identities and groups across multiple school
spaces. Viewed by outsiders as harmonious, this school seethes with
strong divisions and alliances among racial groups jockeying for
position in a familiar white-to-black hierarchy. Concealed behind
color-blind talk, society's racial stratification system replicates
itself in an internal segregation of 'gifted' and 'at risk'
students. If schools are testing grounds for social justice and
equality, this one is more failure than success."--Joe R. Feagin,
Texas A & M University
"American schools are a battleground of diverse issues--busing,
unequal access to resources, multicultural education and bilingual
classes, gangs, and declining property values. Underlying all of
these is the issue of race. Thank goodness for Annegret Staiger,
who is not afraid to shine a bright light on the social conflicts
our children navigate every day. Learning Difference digs deep into
the lives of high school students of different backgrounds to
explore how they live together and apart, managing friendship and
animosity, challenged by well-meaning but misguided school
policies. This book should be required reading in every
teacher-training degree, and placed on the desk of every
principal."--Kevin Bales, President, Free the Slaves
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